Re: Panentheism
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 1:28 am
seeds wrote: Two – As per item one, in what I call “true reality,” there are no strange and bizarre subdivisions of life, such as angels, or demons, or Satan, or hell, or any other such “old paradigm” nonsense as depicted below:
Nick,
Clearly, you and I have a slightly different interpretation of Panentheism, so let's just lay it all out there as we see it and sort it out later in the wash.
When it comes to our particular universe, which could merely be one of a possible infinity of other universes...

...I believe that the Great Chain of Being (the “GCoB”) is represented in precisely the way I depicted it in the following illustration...
Within the context of the closed bubble of reality that we call our universe...
(which, according to my Berkeleyanish form of Panentheism, is the closed and subjective dimension of God’s personal mind and consciousness)
...the GCoB begins with God’s central consciousness (his “I Am-ness”) occupying the top rung of the ladder.
The next rung descending downward from God’s rung would be humans (his literal “offspring”).
From that point, the ladder descends downward into the various and distinct levels of animal consciousness (which includes mammalian, avian, amphibian, reptilian, and fish consciousness, etc.), down to insects – to plants - to microbes, until finally reaching inanimate matter.
(Keep in mind that in the same way that your own thoughts and dreams are “alive” because they are saturated with your own personal life essence, and exist only because you and your mind exist, likewise, so is the “inanimate matter” throughout the universe “alive” because it is founded upon God's existence.)
(Continued in next post)
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